Friday Finds: Really Useful Boxes are … well, really useful!

I think I love organizational products almost as much as I love beads, and so this week, my fab find is a storage item I think is great for beading!

Office Depot carries a great storage box appropriately called the Really Useful Box. It’s perfect for orangizing all those miscellaneous items that you use in your beadwork — wire and chain (especially if you have large spools), glues, wire jigs, tubes and tubes of seed beads, thread and cord — the possibilities are endless!

The boxes are small, but at 9&frac34; inches deep, 6&frac14; inches wide and 7 inches tall, they are taller and a little wider than most small-ish storage boxes. They also hold 3 liters, if you prefer to store your glue outside of the tube.

Really Useful Boxes also stack really well — not like when the boxes say they stack and then you lightly bump them, and they topple, but actually stack. (But, of course, they aren’t stacked properly in the picture I took. Don’t try this at home, kids!) They’re also super durable, and the lid? It can double as a bead tray while you’re using whatever’s in the box!

Since the boxes are from Europe, there is a limited supply here in the United States. I bought three of these boxes last summer, and they ran out at San Antonio Office Depots, so I wasn’t available to get more until this summer! And, of course, I didn’t want to tell y’all about something you couldn’t actually buy! But, I went today to the Office Depot at Bitters Road and U.S. 281, and they had plenty in stock.

If you go to an Office Depot store, not only do you have a rainbow of colors to choose from (in addition to clear, they have red, pink, blue, teal, green, yellow and orange), they are a dollar cheaper at $4.99. You also may want to see if Office Depot is offering a discount on the boxes if you sign up for the store’s rewards program, since Office Depot does that with selected products.